West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 152
... ground , and take their pickinnies ( i . e . children ) on their backs , to which they are tied with handkerchiefs and when they are weary of their burthens , lay them on fheep skins in the field . There is commonly fome invalid women ...
... ground , and take their pickinnies ( i . e . children ) on their backs , to which they are tied with handkerchiefs and when they are weary of their burthens , lay them on fheep skins in the field . There is commonly fome invalid women ...
الصفحة 154
... ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinniny on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obisfha , him de come one night , And give me gown and buffes ; Him get one pickinniny , white ! Almost as white as miffefs . ; Then miffefs fum me ...
... ground to clear - o ; Me take pickinniny on my back , And work him te - me weary . Him , Obisfha , him de come one night , And give me gown and buffes ; Him get one pickinniny , white ! Almost as white as miffefs . ; Then miffefs fum me ...
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